Since the forecast showed rain all day today (in London? Shocking!) and only a couple plays were playing, we decided to visit a couple museums. We started out at the Natural History Museum. We spent about 4 hours there and still didn't see everything. It was fairly crowded with lots of families, probably because it is a Sunday and rainy. They museum is set up very well for children with lots of activities for them to learn hands-on about all kinds of subjects from human biology, earth history, dinosaurs, and the like. We really enjoyed visiting, it was a nice change from all the historical artistic sights.
Next we walked to the adjacent Science Museum which was also very good. We could have spent all day here but only had about 2 1/2 hours. There are 5 full floors of exhibits. We walked through the first floor which takes you through the last 100 years of major inventions/creations such as the first Model T in England, the Apollo 10 Control Module, and the Babbage Difference Engine. We walked through the Flight exhibit which had some really amazing early planes, including a replica of the Wright brothers plane, and several dozen prop and jet engines. We also saw the History of Mathematics and Computing exhibit. Good geeky stuff all around.
After several hours of museums we decided to catch the Tube and head back towards our hotel for dinner. We stopped by The Rock & Sole for dinner again -- you gotta love the British tradition of deep fried everything.
Happy Mother's Day to moms (Carolyn and Linda) We love you both very much!
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